Comments on: Would you hire this Ruby on Rails developer http://vinsol.com/blog/2008/09/30/would-you-hire-this-ruby-on-rails-developer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=would-you-hire-this-ruby-on-rails-developer Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:50:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: cprochas http://vinsol.com/blog/2008/09/30/would-you-hire-this-ruby-on-rails-developer/comment-page-1/#comment-25745 cprochas Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:53:07 +0000 http://www.fromdelhi.com/2008/09/30/would-you-hire-this-ruby-on-rails-developer/#comment-25745 Open source contributions are fun if you have time and the project is fairly well organized. As for showing you some previous coding examples from their workplace, many companies ask their employees to sign non-disclosure agreements to protect proprietary information. If you want to have some assurance that you are hiring the right individual, why not give them a test or some process to code that will give you a better idea of their technical expertise. There are consulting firms who do just that and companies have been utilizing them extensively for their hiring needs. Open source contributions are fun if you have time and the project is fairly well organized.
As for showing you some previous coding examples from their workplace, many
companies ask their employees to sign non-disclosure agreements to protect proprietary information.

If you want to have some assurance that you are hiring the right individual, why not give them a test or some process to code that will give you a better idea of their technical expertise. There are consulting firms who do just that and companies have been utilizing them extensively for their hiring needs.

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